International aid agencies said Sunday they would return to the site of a devastating North Korean train blast, which killed at least 161 people, in an urgent effort to help the victims.
Aid workers and diplomats were Saturday shown the massive destruction in Ryongchon near the Chinese border.
"The assessment was a very preliminary assessment, we will go again, I assume in the next coming days," Pierrette Vu Thi, director of the United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) in North Korea, told AFP by phone.
World Food Program (WFP) Asia Regional director Tony Banbury painted a grim picture of conditions in which some of the 1,300 injured were being treated in a hospital in northern Sinujiu city.
"Injured people are suffering from blast wounds with dirt, debris, rubble and glass literally blown into their faces at high velocity, there are a lot of serious facial wounds," he said.
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